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ONCE UPON A TIME...THE 9/11 TALE WAGS ON

9/11/2014

One thing I'm grateful for on this 11th day of September 2014, thirteen years after, is that more and more people question what they read in the press and what they hear from 'officials.' More and more people are discerning, doubting, sharing information, and refusing to be manipulated. This is important progress.

We are becoming more courageous, more willing to do our research, and more likely to speak out about what we've uncovered. The threats and shame of being referred to as a 'denier' or a 'truther' or a tin-foil hat or a black helicopter person or any number of devices used to deter us from refusing to accept whatever storyline is trotted out for us, have failed to stop us.

I encourage you to stand fast when you know the truth and add to your body of knowledge. The more you know the stronger you are. Whether you're researching EPA restrictions or 9/11 or Sustainable Development or ICLEI or NDAA, Common Core, regionalization---the fulfillment of the new world order---whatever your focus you are adding to the strength of millions when you share your information and insights. Every one of us has a duty and responsibility to ourselves and to our liberty to follow the truth fearlessly. This can be depressing or frightening, but it can also be tremendously exhilarating and freeing. Read, research, listen, and use your individual mind to establish for yourself how you wish to live.

REFUSE TO COLLABORATE
THE WAR ON TERROR IS A WAR ON YOU.

KEEP YOUR SPIRIT STRONG--YOU ARE NOT ALONE

8/24/2014

HERE ARE SOME RECENT COMMENTS FROM YOUR ALLIES ACROSS THE WORLD. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. THE RESISTANCE IS GROWING:

MEXICO
I want to let you know that here in Loreto, BCS Mexico, where we have a UNESCO marine park, we are about to be merged in a "Sister Park" program with Channel Islands National Park. The environmental organization that I resigned from in disgust almost four years ago is facilitating this and setting the stage for our endgame. Our way of life as a fishing village is at risk now. Yesterday a member of the NGO (eco alianza de Loreto) phoned me in a panic because he has been a big donor and now understands the manipulation. He called me to warn me what's in store for us in the fishing industry here so that I may warn my compañeros. Unfortunately there is very little information in Español available to the people and these treaties and agreements are being made in a language that is NOT spanish. Everything legally binding in Mexico MUST be in spanish, its the law. Here is the link for what I am talking about and after that I am adding the link in español. Notice how the español version is totally lacking information and that most of the pdf that is linked off the spanish page, is in English! http://ecoalianzaloreto.org/newsroom.html
spanish http://ecoalianzaloreto.org/espanol/noticias.html Right now I am busy working but this afternoon I will bring in one very well respected fisherman and I'll show him what I see from my computer display. He is my neighbor. Then tomorrow I will do the same with another fisherman who is equally well respected. I will give both the translated version of the "delphi method" document (I translated from your website, thank you!). and then we'll take it from there. Thank you for your information and for continuing to fight the fight!

CANADA
I am in Calgary Alberta. After I read your book I realized how deep the City of Calgary as well as the small cities and towns surrounding Calgary are involved and already implementing UN Agenda 21. What amazes me is the level of ignorance there is understanding the consequences of its implementation.

ALASKA
Hello from Alaska, I've read the book cover to cover. The information has inspired me to do more. My recent information gathering and ground work has stirred up growing interest in my good neighbors. They are wanting to do more "now" as group. I've been encouraging them to do as I, and research (gather survey and easement documentation) and be proactive themselves, as to educate themselves prior to engaging anyone out side of our small coffee group. Our rural community has been overwhelmed by ski, bike, and real-estate d groups developing state land and implementing their agenda of smart growth while trying to eradicate our rights to the same state lands. The neighborhood doesn't like it but the community has embraced it? The community council is in the final stages of adopting a "comprehensive plan" developed by the guidance of the Fishook community council board and the Mat-su borough personnel.

CALIFORNIA
This A21 mess is EVERYWHERE! Here in Dublin, they've ripped out the last flat parking areas at our Dublin BART Station and are preparing to slam in more stack and pack housing! There was a TV ad on our cable the other day (all expensive animation) that showed the future of Dublin with stack and pack low rise buildings lining Dublin Blvd as far as you can see. Who paid for that ad? I also met a School Teacher yesterday who teaches in the east bay. The first thing I ask any teacher is how do you like common core. This person rolled their eyes and then said how much they hated it. I then asked if they knew about Agenda 21. They said they'd never heard of it... I told them to get on the internet and get up to speed. I shared your book and info with a friend up in Oregon. They said they'd already "Dieted" their downtown roads for millions of dollars. When they started the project, studies had documented only an average of 10 bicyclists on the inner city roads, a day! At our kids school, one of our teachers told me I was the only parent aware of the origins of CCSS and the poison it was to the future generation of US citizens. (If we're still a country when they graduate) Thank you for all your efforts to stop the A21, and One Bay Area train wreck!

CALIFORNIA
Who can I contact in Los Angeles County about attending the Agenda 21 Delphi meetings and working against Agenda 21 in my county? I live in Los Angeles.

BRAZIL
Rosa, I'm watching you on Open Mind Conference in 2013 Denmark, and I must say, you have to come to Brazil, just for a cup of coffee. Everything you say about Agenda 21 explains so much of what I feel here - I live in "nowhere" by the way, outside São Paulo, an hour away - and it is invisible, as Agenda 21 must be. I asked the owner of a local store, here at nowhere, about some seeds he had for sale - where do they come from? Are they Monsanto seeds? Etc, and he said just "Gee, I don't know, we buy them from Agroceres I guess, don't know". No one knows anything and yet everything you say sounds incredibly "Brazilian", or "Neo-Brazilian". No one knows Agenda 21 exists, no one has a clue - and no one cares, but I smell it everywhere. So I wanted to ask you if you know about Agenda 21 in Brazil, at least where I could find real info about it. All I see is "how wonderfull sustainable development is". Imagine, a Brazilian asking an American about information on Brazil. Well, this is typically Brazilian. Brazil, I am quite sure, is the most Agenda 21 obedient country on Earth. I can't prove it but I'm sure of that. This must be the model country - maybe that's why this monstrosity was signed in Rio, no less. I'm a musician and I even did a record called "Agenda 21", a jazz record, but somehow it was put aside by the people at the studio, probably because you know, these conspircay things, not good. Self censorship, auto-indoctrination, obedience, alienation, illusion, fake, common good, you will find all that and much more here in abundance. In fact, every "conspiracy" video I watch and see how much Americans are becoming outraged by what is going on in the US (the police state etc), to me it sounds like "duh, this is how Brazil works since I was born". Which, incidentally, was 1964, not an insignificant year in Brazil's history. Ok, I just felt I had to say something and ask you about Brazil. If you have time, of course. Many many many congratulations on your work, it's truly hero stuff. Bravo. And thank you. In the 80s-90s I started smelling something very wrong happening, some "change", something "new". Working with music for advertising I suddenly had to do "new" stuff, modern, cool, something was changing, people's expressions, new looks, something was in the air, globalization etc, but of course I was only called paranoid and negative. You helped me understand finally what this "change" has been, or at least an important part of it, these global changes that were picked up by my intuition, so thank you very much.

MASSACHUSETTS
I'm in Massachusetts probably hopeless down here but any advice or information might be helpful, people look at me like I have two heads when I talk about it

WASHINGTON
First of all, thank you. I recently joined the city planning commission of my small hometown in the Pacific Northwest. Agenda 21 is alive and voraciously enticing and brainwashing my fellow Americans. I now understand thanks to your book the grand journey I will be undertaking by thwarting the plans of globalist funded, unelected, "regional councils". I hope to be in contact with you in the future and look forward to a bright future.

NEW YORK
First of all, let me say thank you for all that you have done, and continue to do to educate people about Agenda 21! I have bought and handed out numerous copies of your book, "Behind the Green Mask."

I live in Wyoming County of western New York State which, unfortuantely, is now home to 308 industrial wind turbines. We were able to stop them from putting up the 2,000+ wind turbines that they originally intended to blanket the entire County with, but it's been a decade long battle! As you well know - useless, sprawling wind factories are part and parcel of Agenda 21 - just a huge land grab geared at driving people out of the countrysides!

I just wanted to update you on what Governor Cuomo is now doing. NY Gov. Cuomo's $Billion Dollar ratepayer-funded 'sun initiative' is in addition to the $Billion Dollar "Green Bank" he already instituted. And all of this following the passage of his "Power NY Act 2011," which removed New York State municipalities long-hel "Home Rule" regarding the siting of energy facilities over 25 MW (obviously designed to aid & abet the siting of sprawling wind factories.) Unfortunately, most politicians are completely energy-illiterate and buy into the "green" BS.

Most disturbing is Governor Cuomo's recent press release (pasted below): GOVERNOR CUOMO ANNOUNCES FUNDAMENTAL SHIFT IN UTILITY REGULATION Governor Cuomo Announces Historic Commitment to Solar Power: http://www.governor.ny.gov/press/04242014-solar-power
Governor Cuomo Announces Historic Commitment to Solar Power | Governor Andrew M. Cuomo $1 Billion Commitment to NY-Sun to Support Widescale Private Investment in New York’s Solar Industry Albany, NY (April 24, 2014)

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WONDERING WHAT YOU CAN DO? TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VICTORY

8/12/2014

Shaw Granted Injunction Against Alameda County in Billboard Battle!

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Citizens for Free Speech Granted Injunction Against Alameda County as I-580 Billboards are Protected by Federal Court

Castro Valley, August 5, 2014 – On Tuesday August 5 Michael Shaw and Jeff Herson of Citizens for Free Speech (Citizens) obtained a court injunction against Alameda County's objection to the construction of three 2-sided billboards along I-580 in Castro Valley, California.

The court ruled against the County and declared, "The Zoning Ordinance Gives Officials Too Much Discretion in Approving or Disapproving Signs Based on Their Content."

Michael Shaw, co-founder of Citizens poses this question: “Is the Alameda County Board of Supervisors trying to hide ABAG, ICLEI, and One Bay Area from the citizens?”

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We are proud to be partners with Michael Shaw and Freedom Advocates in the lawsuit to stop Plan Bay Area.
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Powerful Direct Challenge to Unelected Council of Government in California

6/11/2014

Michael Shaw of Freedom Advocates has issued a powerful challenge to the pushers of Plan Bay Area: billboards targeting commuters on heavily traveled Interstate 580 in northern California.

Shaw is our co-plaintiff in the lawsuit against Plan Bay Area, and he is taking steps to put free speech to the test here in California. State law says that billboards must be licensed to advertise through major billboard owners or, alternately, only advertise the business on which the sign is located. Shaw owns the property but has posted a free speech message, not an advertisement. His message is one of liberty, and his goal is to raise the consciousness of the thousands who see it daily.

Take a look. Spread the word.

May 3: Globalization of California conference/ May 10 Free&Equal Los Angeles

5/2/2014

Join me and other speakers and activists at tomorrow's Globalization of California conference on Treasure Island, San Francisco 10:00-5:30
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I'm excited to be a part of the Free & Equal
UNITED WE STAND Festival
Next Saturday, May 10 UCLA Pauley Pavilion
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SEE YOU THERE!

GLOBALIZATION OF CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE--May 3 in San Francisco

4/9/2014

In meetings across California, unelected and unaccountable regulators are setting up networks of regional government that are usurping local control from you and your duly elected city, county, community and other local officials. These regional bodies are not acting in the “public good” but are reinventing a government that strips property rights away from legitimate property owners and instead gives them to a chosen few under the auspices of programs such as “sustainable development”, ”smart growth” and “public-private partnerships.”

Are you a property owner? Do you value local control of your communities by your duly elected officials? If so, then the time to act is NOW!

The Globalization of California Forum brings top recognized experts together (Michael Shaw, Patrick Wood, Rosa Koire, Debbie Bacigalupi, Heather Gass, Mike Munzing, Matt Grocott, Steve Brandau) to reveal the details and the necessary actions to put a stop to it! Space is limited, so get your ticket today!

The Globalization of California Forum
Saturday, May 3, 2014 – 10:00AM to 5:30PM
Treasure Island, San Francisco Bay
Doors open at 9:30AM for Check-in & Registration
Lunch and Information Packet included
Individual, Family and Group Tickets Available

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EXPOSING THE GLOBAL ROAD TO RUIN THROUGH EDUCATION

3/25/2014

Charlotte Iserbyt's ground breaking conference DVD set is now available. If you're wondering how education became a nightmare and what the future will bring grab your copy of this exceptionally interesting and thought-provoking multi-DVD set now. Charlotte has also made the full conference available on YouTube. Watch it.

Note from Charlotte: "SHARE! SHARE! SHARE!
Those of us involved in the production of Exposing the Global Road to Ruin through Education (ETGRTRTE) are calling on viewers, here and abroad, to make this YouTube version go VIRAL/GLOBAL.

We have stalled their efforts by at least 39 years! We MUST continue the opposition/resistance. Future generations (your children!) are counting on us.

One cannot win a war without identifying the enemy. One cannot win a war without ammunition.

The YouTube version of ETGRTRTE is your Tool Kit (ammunition) to win this war which is determined to destroy the cultural identify of ALL nations. Repeat ALL nations! The 1983 Phi Delta Kappan cartoon by Joel Pett, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, included in this disc set, captures some of the essence of what is taking place right now in ALL schools of the world. "

Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt/3D Research Company
EXPOSING THE GLOBAL ROAD TO RUIN THROUGH EDUCATION
Available at Amazon.com by 3D Research Co.
http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/

Exciting News from Florida: Seven/50 Plan rejected by 2 Counties!

11/8/2013

Seven/50 is the regional plan for Southeast Florida. Running from the Florida Keys north up the east coast, it encompasses seven counties and is the regional plan document for fifty years---that's why it's called Seven/50. Although the planners, consultants, and staff of these counties said that the plan has nothing to do with UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development, that is not true. In fact it is a plan to regionalize the huge southeast Florida area municipalities and merge them into an 'economic powerhouse that would be the 5th largest economy in the US'---as the planners say. Andres Duany, the project designer, said in one of his presentations that fascism was certainly the most efficient form of government, and this merging of local governments and corporate entities will surely bear that out.

Now for the good news. All of the seven counties will be voting to decide whether or not to join in with this regional plan. After citizens in Indian River County educated their county commissioners by going regularly to commission meetings and speaking one after the other about UN Agenda 21 and the impacts of regionalization, the Indian River County Commissioners voted to opt out of participation!

Last night, at the request of American Coalition for Property Rights (www.ac4pr.org) I spoke in St. Lucie County. It was a terrific meeting with a wonderfully committed group of active citizens eager to hear more about UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development and what it looks like in St. Lucie County. I talked about mega-regions and the plan to aggregate 42 Florida counties into the Florida MegaRegion. The Seven/50 Plan is an interim step.

After my speech most of us went over to the St. Lucie County Commissioners meeting where the Seven/50 planners were presenting the draft plan for approval. The room was packed with about 250 - 300 concerned citizens (many of whom had been organized by AC4PR) there to give their input to the county. The energy in the room was electric as one after the other of us got up and spoke to the commissioners about our concerns and about the inherent weaknesses of the plan. The consultant planners sat in silence as they listened to people who refused to be delphi'd and manipulated into accepting a plan that would subsume their voices into the huge 7 county region. The commissioners (two of whom had attended my speech) expressed gratitude that so many of their constituents were taking such an active part in the process of governing. Truly the turnout was overwhelming. Many of the commissioners acknowledged that they already work regionally when necessary and they don't need a document that somehow would merge them formally. Then, one by one, four of the five commissioners rejected participation in the Seven/50 Plan. St. Lucie County, Florida has opted out!

I suggested that the consultants (who have not even acknowledged that Indian River County opted out) should now change the plan name to Five/50!

What does it take to re-erect your sovereignty? Just ask the American Coalition For Property Rights: you show up and do the work. Educate your elected officials. Get the information out to fellow citizens. Hold informational meetings. Support other activists in cities and counties that are working on plan implementation. Anti-Delphi meetings. Make it fun for yourself and each other by appreciating the wonderful new friends you've made --each of whom finds what they're best at doing and then does that. Whether you're a researcher, or a writer, or a speaker, or an organizer, or a flyer distributor, or a website creator; whatever your skill and passion you'll find a place in this movement. And when you win in your county, keep going and help the others get out. That's teamwork. That's 'participatory democracy.' I think we can get consensus on that ;>

'FOR THE RECORD': THE AGENDA airs October 30 on The Blaze TV

10/29/2013

Tomorrow evening, October 30, 'For The Record' a 60-Minutes-style news program will air 'The Agenda' a documentary on UN Agenda 21 and regional planning.

This excellent, well-produced program examines the impacts of Smart Growth and regional over-reach on the San Francisco Bay Area, Detroit, and Portland.

I was pleased to be featured in the show and hope that you'll be able to watch and share it with your fellow activists and friends.

http://www.theblaze.com/fortherecord/
There is a 14 day free trial period for this subscription station

Thank you for your commitment to exposing and fighting UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development.

Awareness is the first step in the Resistance.
Rosa

GRABBING THE BULL BY THE HORNS IN AUSTRALIA: FIGHTING AGENDA 21

10/25/2013

There are still free people in Australia. When it became clear that the 'news' media would not publish the truth about ICLEI's influence on local government or about the facts of UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development, free people stepped up.
The following is a note from someone who purchased advertising space in the newspapers and published the information that has been hidden from the people of Far North Queensland, Australia, and the rest of the world.

"I have been a resident of Far North Queensland for about 8 years. In that time we have experienced an Amalgamation of our Local Councils and then a De-amalgamation. We have seen proposed planning schemes laced with UN Agenda 21 and ICLEI influence which spurred additional support for the De-amalgamation of our local shire.
During that campaign and Local, State and Federal elections; politicians from all parties have ignored resident/voter letters and requests on where they stand on AG21/ICLEI.
There are a few radio personalities who will cover AG21/ICLEI from local to national.
Any info that made it to the newspapers was edited and did not reflect the message to expose Agenda 21 or ICLEI influence in local/state town planning.

Our current solution is to pay for our Open Letters to appear in the local newspapers to:

a) alert the readers of the publications of the existence of Agenda 21 or ICLEI.
b) force a public profile of the existence of Agenda 21 or ICLEI into the media.
c) alert employees of the media (from journalists to the legal departments who proof publications).
d) specifically name the MP's we are addressing publicly regarding their support or opposition to Agenda 21/ICLEI.
e) identify a voter 'issue' not being addressed to all personalities who wish to run for local, state or federal office.
f) counter Agenda 21 at the local/grass roots level where Agenda 21 is currently being imposed in our region."

NOW CLICK HERE TO SEE THE AD THEY PLACED IN THE PAPERS (PDF)
All it takes is guts and money. You have both. Use them.
AWARENESS IS THE FIRST STEP IN THE RESISTANCE.

LAWSUIT FILED: FIGHTING AGENDA 21 IN THE SF BAY AREA

10/23/2013

The Post Sustainability Institute, Rosa Koire, and Michael Shaw (Freedom Advocates) filed the lawsuit to stop Plan Bay Area on October 15, 2013.

Please donate now to assist us in this national effort to protect property rights and the right to representative government. Thank you. For more information click here.

LEGAL FUND DONATION

GOOD NEWS: STOP PLAN BAY AREA .ORG AND @ROSAKOIRE

6/23/2013

If you've been trying to follow us on Twitter and haven't been able to we have good news. Thanks to our good friends in New Hampshire, Rosa has a Twitter account. Please follow @RosaKoire and let your friends know, too.

We have also launched our fundraising website for the legal challenge to Plan Bay Area. Please take a look at www.StopPlanBayArea.org and donate while you're there. Share the new website with your friends. We need your help.

Thank you for standing with us in the fight against UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development.

Awareness is the first step in the Resistance.
Action is the second step.

GUEST POST: MICHAEL SHAW AT FREEDOM ADVOCATES

6/23/2013

Michael Shaw, Freedom Advocates, has joined with us to hire legal counsel to fight Plan Bay Area. Here is Michael's statement from Freedom Advocates website www.freedomadvocates.org

A Time to Sue: Regionalism Challenged
By Freedom Advocates Wednesday, 05 June 2013 17:04

First Ever Legal Challenge to Stop Agenda 21 Nine-County Regional Plan

The plot to transform the San Francisco Bay Area is largely unknown by the residents living there and overwhelmingly opposed by those who do know. The global boiler plate program called One Bay Area (OBA) or Plan Bay Area will roll out across the nation on a grand scale. OBA involves more than $250,000,000,000 (over a quarter of a trillion dollars).

The plan destroys rural and suburban lifestyles and transforms areas into dense mega-cities where people are assessed, monitored and controlled. Sound extreme?

Freedom Advocates and The Post Sustainability Institute hired the law firm of Kassouni Law to evaluate and comment on OBA/Plan Bay Area. Mr. Kassouni's review focused on Natural Law, and Constitutional, and/or statutory violations inherent to the Plan. Litigation to stop the Plan must be filed within 90 days of the Plan's adoption which is scheduled for July of this year.

Regional government is promulgated through Councils of Governments (COGs) and serves to neuter local government through a federalized system of carrots and sticks. COGs are designed to be the primary engine in the United States to advance Agenda 21 at the local level. The Plan for the Bay Area is the prototype of what COGs throughout the country will commit to if the Plan is implemented in the Bay Area. Over time the Plan abolishes private property as a system of public private partnerships assume control of our economic future.

You can help

Freedom Advocates has established a litigation fund to halt the Plan's affront to the American system of government. We need your financial help and the help of many more to avoid an administrative takeover of America including the restructure of your entire way of life.

You can contribute to the campaign to Say No to Regionalism.

Please send your tax-deductible contribution to the "Freedom Advocates OBA Legal Fund" and mail to Freedom Advocates Box 3330 Freedom, California 95019.

You will be making an invaluable and timely contribution to salvage a Constitutional America.

FIGHTING BACK IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: YES WE CAN!

6/17/2013

Hey, just because they got a 20 year headstart on us doesn't mean we can't win this. Here's an example for everyone across the nation. As you know, regional plans are infesting every part of our country. If it's not ONE BAY AREA, it's the POWER of 32, or PLAN ET, or HORIZON 2035. In New Hampshire it's called GRANITE STATE FUTURE. Their slogan is 'Granite State Future is YOUR future.' The consultants and government lackeys who are pushing the regionalization of New England are using HUD grants to direct local government to create the 'future we want' as it's called by the UN (Rio + 20).

Here's where the story gets good.

A dedicated group of free people in New Hampshire fought back against Granite State Future. They showed up at Delphi meetings and anti-Delphi'd them. They video'd every public meeting. They created email lists. They organized debates. They flyered. They created a website.

What kind of website? A website that makes you sit up and take notice. A mirror website of Granite State Future--the official website of the invading government force. A website that tells the truth about Granite State Future. The Resistance website is Granite State Futures--with an 's' at the end. Great idea, right? What's their slogan? 'Granite State Future is HUD's Future.'

So the 'S'- at- the- end -Resistance -website, Granite State Futures, got some feedback from the state government. The state wasn't happy about the fact that a mirror site was up on the web informing citizens about UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development and the motives and tactics being used to implement regional governance over New Hampshire. In fact, the state was so unhappy about this that the government made a complaint that their copyright had been infringed. They tried to get Granite State Futures removed from the internet. TWICE.

You're not surprised. What does that tell you? Anyway, you can imagine that this might have intimidated the heroes of our story. But it didn't. They fought back. They knew that the government doesn't have copyrights over their public domain information. Why? Because we, the public, paid for it and we own it.

So what happened? The government filed a complaint with the server hosting the Resistance website, and the server investigated and refused to remove the Resistance site, Granite State Futures. This is BIG. This is IMPORTANT. You are entitled to your free speech rights. USE THEM. FIGHT BACK. If you sit silent WE WILL LOSE. Join with others. Use GRANITE STATE FUTURES as a template for your action.

READ THEIR STORY HERE ON THEIR WEBSITE.
Sustainable Tyranny in NH - GSF Fights Back - http://eepurl.com/A4LIr

COMMON CORE BACKLASH

4/15/2013

The joke is that you can mess with my kids but don't touch my dog. Well, luckily it's not true that people--parents and educators---will stand quietly and allow their children to be abused by standardized testing and 'educational' programs. I almost typed 'pogroms'. Look it up.

So the Associated Press finally broke down and did a story on Common Core, but didn't name it. They focused in on just standardized testing and not on standardized curriculum. According to a former Bush operative who helped write No Child Left Behind, Sandy Kress, the problem is in 'overtesting.'   After the Associated Press adds a couple of columns to muddy the issue and not address standardized 'education' and data collection, Kress wraps up the article in phony concern for the children. Here's the quote: "This is about way more than testing," Kress said. "The question is whether we're (she means 'Society' here) willing to hold ourselves accountable. The question is whether there are consequences for adults and whether we're serous about all children meeting standards. This is a test of our culture and whether we're prepared to see these aspirations to reality. I worry that we're not going to pass this test."

She's worried that society won't be able to pull off the most massive, comprehensive social manipulation since Nazi Germany, Maoist China, and Soviet Russia. Worried.

Now I want to read you something from a book called The Gulag Archipelago. This book was written by a man who was a prisoner in Soviet Russia during the years of Lenin and Stalin. The book covers the years 1918-1956, and it's painful reading. The passage I'm going to share with you will answer your question: How can people do these things? Do they actually believe that they're doing the right thing? Why can't they listen to us?

"Ideology--that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors. .. Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions. This cannot be denied, nor passed over, nor suppressed. How, then, do we dare insist that evildoers do not exist?...Yes, a human being hesitates and bobs back and forth between good and evil all his life. He slips, falls back, clambers up, repents, things begin to darken again. But just so long as the threshold of evildoing is not crossed, the possibility of returning remains, and he himself is still within reach of our hope. But when, through the density of evil actions, the result either of their own extreme degree or of the absoluteness of his power, he suddenly crosses that threshold, he has left humanity behind, and without, perhaps, the possibility of return."   From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago.

According to the Associated Press article, students all over the United States are refusing to take standardized tests. Opt-outs, boycotts, protests, and moratoriums are spreading.

REFUSE TO COLLABORATE. FIGHT COMMON CORE. DIRECT INSTRUCTION. VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS. OUTCOME BASED EDUCATION. LIFELONG LEARNING. WHOLE CHILD TRAINING. INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE.   WORKFORCE TRAINING.
IT'S ABOUT TRAINING YOU TO BE AN OBEDIENT GLOBAL CITIZEN.
ARE YOU?

   COMMON CORE IS AGENDA 21.

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